A former Jefferson County teacher has been arrested on charges of having inappropriate sexual contact with a student.

Jennifer Marie Perry, 27, surrendered to the Jefferson County Jail on Monday, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. She is charged with having sexual contact with a 17-year-old student at Pinson Valley High School.

A former teacher at Oak Mountain Middle School pleaded guilty this morning to one felony count of being a school employee engaging in a sex act with a student younger than 19.

Under the plea agreement, Jeffery Scott Atkins, who turns 41 on Wednesday, received a sentence of 20 years in prison that was split to require him to serve three years with the remaining term suspended. Following his release he will be placed on five years of supervised probation.

A convicted sex offender faces new sexual assault related charges after Dothan police charged him with the electronic solicitation of a child for a sex act.

Court records show police investigators arrested Robert Blake Jones, 30, of Dothan, on Wednesday, and charged him with felony traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act and felony electronic solicitation of a child for a sex act.